Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing Programs


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
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Overview/Description
Monitoring and controlling is an essential feature of program management, which allows you to ascertain the current benefit delivery status, ensure adequate resources are in place, and that changes are properly managed. Closing a program is a time for celebration. However, to be successful and ensure program benefits are achieved, monitoring, controlling, and closing processes must be followed. Such activities require a great effort on the part of the program team and all others involved. This course is designed to help program managers understand the processes that support the Monitoring and Controlling and Closing process groups. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Inc., 2004. Copyright and all rights reserved. Material from this publication has been reproduced with the permission of PMI®.

Target Audience
Those with intermediate to expert level knowledge of project management and the associated methodologies

Prerequisites
A good understanding of project management and its principles

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing Programs

  • recognize the importance of properly monitoring and controlling a program
  • identify the activities involved in controlling resources
  • recognize questions to consider when dealing with change control
  • identify activities involved in monitoring and controlling program work, issues, and scope
  • match the processes involved in schedule, cost, quality, and communication control to example activities
  • match the activities involved in Program Performance Reporting, Risk Monitoring, and Contract Administration processes with examples
  • recognize the importance of the Closing process group
  • close a program in a given scenario
  • match the functions of the Closing process group with examples
  • recognize examples of process interactions
  • Course Number:
    proj_02_a06_bs_enus